What’s the sexiest letter in the English language?
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Anyone who wants to credit Justin Timberlake with bringing “SexyBack” won’t hear an argument from me. It’s little wonder his latest album sold 968,000 copies in its first week. As The New York Times reports, from recent cameos in Bud Light and Target commercials to guest hosting “Saturday Night Live” and appearing in a weeklong stint on Jimmy Fallon, the campaign behind the entertainer’s celebrity brand “shows how high the bar has been set to market a megahit.”
But did the former Mouseketeer have an unfair advantage over his colleagues in the music industry? Quite possibly, if Bruce Price is to be believed. In a recent piece for The Week, the writer contends why “J” may be the alphabet’s sexiest letter. And as we all know, sex sells. Price explains:
“J has some weird sexual je-ne-sais-quoi mojo, some humor (jests, jibes, jokes, jocularity), some sweetness (jams and jellies, Jujubes and Jujifruit), and some heat (joules).”
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